Game is a ghost town after server split.

[Anvaire]

i can kinda see how its quieter but over time that will be rectified... Its also the back-end of an expansion so a good chunk of the player base probably aren't around at the moment, so i would wait til ShB launches and see what its like then. Feels a bit premature to make a judgement now.

I mean either way, i doubt they will re-merge the data centres as clearly it was needed to facilitate further growth.

[Araxes]

Ghost town? if i go to limsa or Kugane, its so packed that i couldnt move a foot if this Game had Collisionsystems.

[Truen]

It's...weird. Among the people on my friends list, the people in my FC, etc etc, it seems like a ghost town at times. But...there is also something else I noticed.

As a dps main, I have very long queue times and have learned to deal with it. I don't like crafting, gathering, or changing jobs while in a queue because I've had bad experiences in the past of having crafts interrupted or timing out and being automatically withdrawn (usually due to "being in combat"). So, to pass the time, I spam fates for GC seals. My zone of choice is usually Coerthas Central Highlands. Ever since I pretty much joined this game after Stormblood's release, that zone has almost always been a ghost town. In recent weeks, however, the zone is packed. There are people wandering around doing fates, quests, etc. Most of them are sprouts, but not all. I'm still not quite used to it. I'm so used to my Coerthas grinding being my "alone time".

I don't know who all these people are, but they're there and they're not bots.

The ques are because there aren't enough people joining that are healing and/or tanking. And, after SE nerfs the pants off the SCH AND the new non-healing classes roll out I imagine that problem to become a bit worse as well. I know I won't be queuing to heal any longer at that point, and I'm sure others won't be either. I'm already planning on switching to either a SAM or a Red Mage when the changes go live. I just refuse to play a shell of a class I used to enjoy.

Sorry about your unhappiness with the state of your server though; I hope it gets better while you're still here.

[Aramina]

Yes, I mostly play at off hours. From 11pm-6am. The game still felt alive at all hours even these late hours before the split. Maybe I'll have to swap to a European data-center and see if I can play with the lag.

Two points:

a) I played on an EU server at the beginning of Stormblood (I am in the US) and ping was slightly higher, but nothing difficult to overcome.

b) You may want to check the servers before transferring a character as they were split too... and they started with less players than we did. Granted your times will be more primetime for them, but I'd still check.

Good luck

[SDaemon]

And all you people who think the population HASN'T been decreased by splitting the player base from half into thirds, must all be SE shills.

I don't think anyone has said that the server shuffling with the new data center hasn't impacted populations, only that the population seems relatively healthy and active. However, I haven't and still don't see anything close to what you are suggesting is happening to Aether's population.

[Shiro--Tsubasa]

if anything I'm experiencing the opposite. For the first time since the previous expansion release I had to wait to log in on my character on Ultros.

[pclarkson85]

really disagree.

[DumdogsWorld]

Sorry about your unhappiness with the state of your server though; I hope it gets better while you're still here.

I never said I was unhappy. I'm just not used to having people wandering around so much in the open world.

As for DPS queue times, I would have quit this game a long time ago if that actually bothered me.

[Doozer]

I haven't seen any issues on Diabolos or Crystal in general (relating to duties). I've been having technical issues and while trying to fix it I've been logged in a lot, and there was like 600 people in the queue ahead of me at prime time yesterday. It seems like everyone's running around getting stuff done before ShB comes out. Maybe it's just world visit clogging it all up, but there's still lots running around in cities and zones.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Ghost town? if i go to limsa or Kugane, its so packed that i couldnt move a foot if this Game had Collisionsystems.

If this game had collision detection, Leap of Faith would be impossible.

As is, it's so crowded lately that it's kind of nauseating trying to play it. Lots of last-minute people going for their car, I'd bet.